Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-06-23). Iran in America's Backyard: Raisi's Defiant Latin America Tour. libya360.wordpress.com Zafar Mehdi The Iranian president's visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba sought to challenge Washington's global hegemony, by stripping it bare in its own backyard. On 21 June, the US House Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee conducted a hearing on "countering threats posed by nation-state actors" in Latin America to US homeland security. Congressman and subcommittee…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-23). Alliance for Global Justice Demands Justice for Nicaragua and End to US' Ongoing Human Rights Abuses. orinocotribune.com

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-23). Iran Joins Forces With Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua To Blow Back US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell — Jun 19, 2023 | The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, concluded this Friday in Havana, a trip to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, that aimed to denounce the U.S. sanctions and imperialist policy suffered by the four countries, and to create new economic and commercial agreements to promote the development of their peoples. The tour succeeded in uniting forces between these countries, which are under heavy unilateral sanctions at a time of economic hardship. | Raisi was received with honors in Caracas by President Nicolás Maduro. This was the starting point of the leader…

midwesternmarx (2023-06-23). MORE THAN REFORM: BUILDING THE LABOR REVIVAL By: Bradley Crowder. midwesternmarx.com I will never forget the thick summer heat that filled the sanctuary of my rural Southern Baptist church when revival week came around. Once a year, we would host a traveling firebrand of a preacher to come and reignite the spark of our faith. The press of the bodies together in long wooden pews was in stark contrast to the normally cool, even austere atmosphere that usually occupied the space between the four walls we all held as holy. The world, even then, could often feel hopeless and c …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-23). Panama hosts film workshops in Central America and the Caribbean. plenglish.com Panama, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) The 2nd edition of Panama's learning workshops for young filmmakers from Central America and the Caribbean promotes several projects for this year.

teleSUR (2023-06-23). Five Keys to Understanding the Guatemalan Elections. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, some 9.3 million Guatemalans will elect president, 340 mayors, 160 lawmakers, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. | RELATED: | The ongoing electoral process, however, has been marked by the presence of some irregularities that have raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of its eventual results. Below are five key elements to understand what is happening in this Central America…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-23). Iran Joins Forces With Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua To Blow Back US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell — Jun 19, 2023 | The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, concluded this Friday in Havana, a trip to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, that aimed to denounce the U.S. sanctions and imperialist policy suffered by the four countries, and to create new economic and commercial agreements to promote the development of their peoples. The tour succeeded in uniting forces between these countries, which are under heavy unilateral sanctions at a time of economic hardship. | Raisi was received with honors in Caracas by President Nicolás Maduro. This was the starting point of the leader…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-23). Cuba attends Central American Poultry Congress in Costa Rica. plenglish.com San José, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) José Luis Parapar, president of the Cuban Poultry Group, highlighted in this capital on Friday the presence of his country's specialists in the Central American Congress of this specialty so as to exchange experiences in scientific-technical spheres.

Jeff Abbott (2023-06-22). The Other Americans: Prelude to Guatemala's Elections. progressive.org Guatemalans go to the polls on Sunday, June 25 to vote to elect a new president, 160 congressional representatives, hundreds of mayors, and twenty members of the Central American Parliament.

Jeff Abbott (2023-06-22). The Other Americans: Prelude to Guatemala's Elections. progressive.org Guatemalans go to the polls on Sunday, June 25 to vote to elect a new president, 160 congressional representatives, hundreds of mayors, and twenty members of the Central American Parliament.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-06-21). Historic relations between Nicaragua and Russia highlighted. plenglish.com Managua, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) Presidential advisor Laureano Ortega said that the historical relations between Nicaragua and Russia are reaffirmed and today are focused on mutual development and the establishment of a new world order.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-19). Influenza vaccination campaign to begin in Nicaragua. plenglish.com According to Vice President Rosario Murillo, this will be carried out through the Ministry of Health (Minsa), with 600,000 doses and will be applied to people over six years of age. | The most recent vaccination campaign in Nicaragua against other diseases was carried out between April and May, and according to Minsa, 2,291,284 doses of vaccines were applied. | This initiative involved a social participation of 35,479 persons in the in the immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. | During the free health campaigns, doses were also administered against measles, mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis, Covid-…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-19). Influenza vaccination campaign to begin in Nicaragua. plenglish.com According to Vice President Rosario Murillo, this will be carried out through the Ministry of Health (Minsa), with 600,000 doses and will be applied to people over six years of age. | The most recent vaccination campaign in Nicaragua against other diseases was carried out between April and May, and according to Minsa, 2,291,284 doses of vaccines were applied. | This initiative involved a social participation of 35,479 persons in the in the immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. | During the free health campaigns, doses were also administered against measles, mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis, Covid-…

John Perry (2023-06-18). Masaya in Flames — Five Years Afterwards. orinocotribune.com By John Perry — Jun 15, 2023 | During the attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018, Masaya was one of the cities most affected by the violence and by the widespread use of roadblocks to control the streets, many manned by armed youths. The violence began on April 18 and lasted until July 17, when police and Sandinista volunteers moved in to clear the roadblocks. Overall, in Masaya some 36 people died during the coup attempt, including three police officers (and two more were trapped and murdered after the coup attempt ended). Randall, the subject of this article, lives in Monimbó, the neighborhood or "barrio" whe…

_____ (2023-06-18). We Must Acknowledge Hard Truths About the Holocaust in Poland. strategic-culture.org Aleksander Kwasniewski, former Polish president: Discussing crimes committed by members of one's own nation is never easy. Israeli universities are honoring two outstanding Poles who explore Polish crimes against Jews in WWII. Learning the truth would strengthen Poland, too | By Aleksander KWASNIEWSKI | Two outstanding Polish women, Barbara Engelking, a Holocaust scholar and Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel Prize laureate, both esteemed and courageous contributors to their fields are being awarded honorary doctorates by Tel Aviv University Thursday. This act of recognition from Israel contrasts the responses their work ha…